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The Cap-Haitien least gecko (''Sphaerodactylus lazelli'' ) is a species of
lizard Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...
in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is endemic to
Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
.


Etymology

The
specific name Specific name may refer to: * in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules: * Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''lazelli'', is in honor of American herpetologist James Draper "Skip" Lazell, Jr. (born 1939).


Habitat

The preferred habitat of ''S. lazelli'' is forest at sea level.


Description

The holotype of ''S. lazelli'' has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of .Shreve (1968).


Reproduction

''S. lazelli'' is
oviparous Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and ...
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References


Further reading

* Rösler H (2000). "''Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)'' ". ''Gekkota'' 2: 28–153. (''Sphaerodactylus lazelli'', p. 112). (in German). * Schwartz A (1983). "Part 1. ''Sphaerodactylus difficilis'', ''S. clenchi'', and ''S. lazelli'' ". pp. 5–30. ''In'': Schwartz A, Thomas R (1983). "The ''difficilis'' complex of ''Sphaerodactylus'' (Sauria, Gekkonidae) of Hispaniola". ''Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History'' (22): 1-60. *Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). ''Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History''. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. . (''Sphaerodactylus lazelli'', p. 502). *Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). ''A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles''. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (''Sphaerodactylus lazelli'', p. 153). * Shreve B (1968). "The ''notatus'' group of ''Sphaerodactylus'' (Sauria, Gekkonidae) in Hispaniola". ''Breviora'' (280): 1-28. (''Sphaerodactylus lazelli'', new species, pp. 8–10). Sphaerodactylus Reptiles of Haiti Endemic fauna of Haiti Reptiles described in 1968 {{Sphaerodactylus-stub